The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has concluded plans to arraign a former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Maurice Iwu over...
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Monday, granted the request by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to freeze the First City Monument...
Former Federal Capital Territory minister, Jumoke Akinjide, has been re-arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a N650 million money laundering charge. Akinjide...
After series of legal trials and tussles bothering on money laundering, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has challenged a medical report tendered by embattled...
One Murtala Muhammad, alleged brother to the Secretary to Zamfara State Government, Professor Abdullahi Shinkafi, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),...
Former Chairman, Board of Directors of Skye Bank Plc (now Polaris Bank), Tunde Ayeni, and the former Managing Director, Timothy Oguntayo, have been re-arraigned by the...
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday discharged and acquitted Robert Azibaola, a cousin to former President Goodluck Jonathan, of an alleged $40million contract scam....
The Minna Division of the Federal High Court on Thursday issued bench warrants for the arrest of former Niger State Governor, Babangida Aliyu, and his former...
A former chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Ikeja Branch, Adesina Ogunlana, on Wednesday collapsed in the dock during arraignment by the Economic and Financial...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has returned to custody four officials of the Kwara State government accused of money laundering. The officials Abubakar Ishiak,...
Local government administrations in Nigeria would not be able to withdraw cash above N500,000 daily, from June 1, 2019, the Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit, NFIU, has...
Investigation has been launched into ousted President Omar al-Bashir over allegations of money laundering and possession of large sums of foreign currency without legal grounds. A...
Director General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Ishaq Moddibbo Kawu, will be docked on Wednesday over his alleged complicity in the misappropriation of the N2.5...
The acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has accused “fraudsters in banks” of laundering public funds for corrupt politicians and...
Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State Clement Faboyede and former campaign director in the state, Modupe Adetokunbo have said that the statements...
The European Commission has added Nigeria to a blacklist of countries it says poses threat because of their lax control on terrorism financing and money laundering....
The Nigerian Government confirmed last night that it had begun processing legal papers to expedite the extradition of former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, to face trial...
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Friday intercepted $2.8m (N1.02bn) at Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu. The money was found on Ighoh Augustine...
A Federal High Court in Damaturu, Yobe State, on Friday remanded a former Minister of Science and Technology, Abdu Bulama, and four others for alleged money...
MICROFINANCE banks’ operators have commended the new Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Financing Terrorism (AML/CFT) sanction regime saying it will enhance public confidence in the banking system. Two weeks...
A senator, Stella Oduah, was on Monday questioned by anti-corruption officials for alleged money laundering. Ms. Oduah, a former aviation minister, arrived the headquarters of the...
The trial of Muhammed Dele Belgore, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, and Prof. Abubakar Sulaiman, a former Minister of National Planning, commenced on Monday. A...
Former First Lady, Patience Jonathan may be facing another round of scrutiny as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, is currently investigating how $175,750,000 deposited...
The Chairman of Ikeja Hotel Plc, Mr Goodie Ibru, has been declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over alleged capital market fraud,...
The Federal High Court in Ibadan has sentenced a former employee of Wema Bank, Ademola Oni, to 12-year imprisonment for conspiracy and money laundering. The court,...
Another twist has been added to the arraignment of a former presidential aide, Waripomei Dudafa, alongside 2 others and four companies. Former First Lady, Patience Jonathan,...
Buhari’s anti-corruption war may have caught its biggest fish so far as four companies linked to Nigeria’s former First Lady, Patience Jonathan, on Thursday pleaded guilty to...
The EFCC, it has been learnt, has finally decided to charge a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Chief Olu Falae, for money...
The Kogi State Government has been accused of money laundering and misappropriation of over N11bn state funds by a civil society group, Egalitarian Mission Africa, EMA....
Abiodun Agbele, aide to Ekiti state governor, Ayodele Fayose, has been granted bail by the Federal High Court Abuja, in the sum of N500 million for...
Former Adamawa State governor, Ahmadu Fintiri , was on Thursday remanded in Kuje prison after an Abuja Federal High Court ordered his imprisonment pending the determination...
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday dismissed the no case submission filed by Ikedi Ohakim, former governor of Imo State and asked him to...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has finally filed charges bordering on money laundering against Air Marshal Adesola Amosu (rtd) at the Federal High Court...
The trial of a former Governor of Taraba State, Jolly Nyame, was stalled on Monday in an FCT High Court, Gudu, Abuja, as the EFCC, failed...
Two Diamond Bank Plc managers, Lasisi Abayomi and Hillary Ojukwu were on Wednesday arraigned at the Federal High Court for money laundering charges by the National...
A former Chief of Air Staff, Mohammed Umar, has asked the Federal Government for an out of court settlement in a seven count charge of alleged...
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, adjourned hearing in an appeal brought before it by Senate President, Bukola Saraki against his trial at...
President Muhammadu Buhari, Monday night, appealed to the National Assembly to speedily pass the bills before it. The bills, according to the President, included the money...
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has sentenced a former Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, Raymond Omatseye, to five years imprisonment....
A former minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode says he will report to the offices of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in Abuja on Monday to...
The trial of former Benue State Governor, Gabriel Suswam, witnessed a twist on Thursday, as the fourth prosecution witness called by the Economic and Financial and...
A witness, Mr. Abu Sule, Wednesday, told a Federal High Court in Abuja how he collected $2.29 million in cash in Ghana-Must-Go’ bag from a former...
The National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh, who was hospitalised after he fell from a chair at the PDP national secretariat...
The application brought by the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh, asking Justice Okon Abang to disqualify himself from continuing with...
Efforts by the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh, to have his case transferred to another judge has been thwarted, as...
In its quest to attain a high level of compliance, in its fight against money laundering and terrorism financing, the Inter-Governmental Group against Money Laundering in...
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a former Brazilian president has been slapped with money laundering charges after Sao Paulo state prosecutors led an investigation against him....
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, may have started the process of closing in on the immediate past Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, as...
By Chido Onumah Late last month, President Muhammadu Buhari sent two executive bills to the National Assembly that border on the government’s commitment to strengthen...
The investigation into allegations of money laundering proffered against a former Petroleum Resources Minister, Mrs Diezeani Alison-Madueke continued Friday with her appearance at the Charing Cross...
